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Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America (Updated and Expanded Edition) (Process Self-reliance Series) Paperback – March 6, 2012
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One of the most popular titles in Process' Self-Reliance series, Getting Out is a smartly designed and easy-to-navigate compendium about your best options for a new homeland, and how to navigate a myriad of hurdles before and after you get there.
Here are the rules, resources, and experiences of dozens of expat Americans on every continent, including author Mark Ehrman, who moved from Los Angeles to Berlin after publishing Getting Out. The updated and expanded edition contains new information on taxes, healthcare, food, drink, drugs, security, and suggestions about how to start a business or make a living in foreign lands.
- Print length460 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherProcess
- Publication dateMarch 6, 2012
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101934170291
- ISBN-13978-1934170298
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- Publisher : Process; Second edition (March 6, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 460 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1934170291
- ISBN-13 : 978-1934170298
- Item Weight : 1.58 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #745,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #684 in Emigration & Immigration Studies (Books)
- #775 in Human Geography (Books)
- #1,003 in General Travel Reference
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Cletus Nelson is a veteran freelance journalist, author and researcher. His writings have appeared in several publications and half a dozen books for Disinformation, Creation, Process Media and Feral House. He lives in Los Angeles and can be found online at about.me/cletusnelson

Kelly Kittel has been trying to make the world a better place since she arrived with a book clutched tightly in her little fist. Indeed, some of her best friends are books. She spent most of her career as a fish biologist saving the salmon but has been slowly undergoing metamorphosis from a fish biologist who writes to a writer who used to work as a fish biologist.
Kelly has had thirteen pregnancies and given birth to seven children, only five of whom are living today. Needless to say, she knows a lot about loss. She has never been highly decorated, but was once the spelling bee champion of her second grade class. She currently lives on Aquidneck Island, the original Rhode Island, with her husband and their two youngest children (the other three are in college and grad school). But her favorite place to write is in their yurts on the coast of Oregon.

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That's not what I got. Not at all.
This is a wonderfully comprehensive guide to moving abroad, temporarily, for a job (and how to find one, abroad), or permanently, perhaps for retirement. It covers a wide range of countries, focusing on 61 very varied countries, worldwide.
If you have a specific reason for moving, or might run into political issues you didn't even think to look into, this book is vital reading. At the front of the book -- before the country-by-country descriptions -- you'll find everything from drug laws to gay rights to religion, and from healthcare to crime to taxes... each with lists of the best (and worst) countries, based on your preferences. (And, those best-and-worst lists come from outside sources, with clear references. Many of them are US government resources. So, this book isn't as biased as I'd expected, reading others' reviews of it.)
With how-to advice, web resources, and lots & lots of stories by people living in those countries right now... this book contains over 450 pages of essential reading for anyone who plans to spend time abroad.
It's more of an encyclopedia than anything you'll read, one page at a time, starting at the first page and concluding at the last. I read the sections that most interested me, and learned a lot I hadn't expected to. I'm still pretty sure we know which country we want to retire in. However, I'm reading other parts of this book, in case we're missing some vital information or a better choice for our interests and our retirement budget.
Some countries aren't as well represented as others. For example, the first-person ex-pat stories about the U.K. are mostly about living in London. That's a tiny part of England, and not typical of U.K. life. You'll miss a lot of what's great about England (and Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) if you rely on ex-pats' descriptions of life in London.
Likewise, the only first-person story in the section about Canada is describing moving to Toronto, with a reference to Vancouver, as well as some general Canadian advice.
By contrast, the 62nd option -- nomadic living -- includes rich and fascinating first-person stories. I could almost consider that lifestyle, based on those stories.
Of course, this book is already over 400 pages long. Though I'd like more stories and personal advice, I'm not sure that's practical. And, to be fair, the stories that are included are thoughtfully written from a variety of viewpoints. They may not tell the entire story about the respective country, but for an American planning to move, they're excellent insights.
I'd like to see more books in this series, with a wider range of first-person, ex-pat stories and advice, country by country.
Meanwhile, if you're moving abroad for school, work, retirement, or for other reasons, this book is absolutely essential reading. It's not at all what I'd expected. It's vastly better.
Edit: Was curious if there'd been an update. Sadly not. But I was naturalised as an Irish citizen last year, and this book is a big part of why. Though r/amerexit has useful resources as well, and is up to date.
Overall, a refreshing book that gives one reason to research leaving.
My only criticism is that America is the continent and the United States is the government we are seeking assistance becoming untangled from.
So a better name for the book would have been Getting Out Your Guide to Leaving the United States (of America). This would prevent confusion on the part of people from other parts of the continent who have other equally pesky governments with which to untangle themselves from when opportunity knocks.
I took out as many books as I could find on this and similar topics and this is the best one I found. The information is interestingly laid out, the book is easy to navigate, and I really liked the stories of expats included throughout the book.
Don't expect this book to give you every detail about immigration to an individual country, but do expect it to tell you what kind of visas are offered and where to get started.
Loved it!









